Content Delivery Networks and Edge Scaling
Learn how CDNs and edge computing offload traffic from your origin, reduce latency, and absorb spikes by serving content closer to users.
Moving Work to the Edge
Load balancing, caching, and database scaling all improve the origin. A CDN goes further: it serves responses from servers physically close to the user, before traffic ever reaches your origin.
What a CDN Is
A Content Delivery Network is a global network of edge servers. Users connect to the nearest one (a point of presence), cutting round-trip distance dramatically.
All lessons in this course
- Load Balancing Techniques
- Effective Caching Strategies
- Database Scaling Essentials
- Content Delivery Networks and Edge Scaling